Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27180
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.025
Description
When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery, ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she makes a miniature village in the sand with her new friend.